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By: Shannon Young on Jan 09, 2010
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My first encounter with the camotero cart was through its distant whistle in the streets of Mexico City. "What was that?" I asked a friend. I think the explanation confused me more than the sound; a wood more...
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By: Grant Fuller on Dec 19, 2009
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It was just a little story about a bunch of guys building a giant Christmas tree of metal. I could just waltz up to the construction site, talk to a few workers, record some crane noise and be done with i more...
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By: Chris Burrell on Dec 12, 2009
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I live in East Boston, Massachusetts, where there's a palpable Latino feel to the neighborhood, mostly El Salvadoran and Colombian. You can literally smell the fresh tortillas in the air when you emerge a more...
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By: Grant Fuller on Dec 06, 2009
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From the moment I first heard music from a backpack in the Mexico City subway, I wanted to know more. The sound itself just screams radio story. And the backpacks they've rigged up are truly creative. I r more...
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By: Don Duncan on Nov 21, 2009
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On the back of Nassir Khan Nassiri's black jacket are emblazoned the words "Rough Soul." The letters, stitched in a death metal font, glow in the dark as he makes his way through the cold, wet streets of Calais, France.
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Kira Neel is a freelance journalist currently based in New York City. She works with youth around the world as a performer and workshop facilitator to document the effects of globalization and the happenings of an increasingly connected world. 
Gretchen L. Wilson is based in Johannesburg, and reports throughout the continent on globalization, power and money. Her work has appeared on Marketplace, The World, Slate, the BBC, CBC, and in The Daily Beast, The Wall Street Journal, and the Associated Press. Gretchen is also the co-author of From Dust to Diamonds: Stories of South African Social Entrepreneurs (2007). Her Web site is www.gretchenlwilson.com.
Don Duncan is a freelance print and radio reporter and videographer based in Beirut, Lebanon, where he covered the country's recent election, it's 2007 political crisis, and the conflict at the Nahr al Bared Palestinian camp.
His reporting has also brought him to Afghanistan, where he covered the plight of the country's disabled and the advances in development in the north of the country; to Miami, to look into the shifting power-play of Florida's Latino vote, between Cubans and non-Cuban Hispanics; and most recently to Nepal and Bhutan where, funded by The Nation Institute in New York, he investigated the beginnings of an insurgency facing Bhutan as it settles into its newly-created democracy.
Originally from Ireland, Don speaks fluent French and Irish. He holds the Bachelor's degree in literature from Trinity College Dublin and Master's degrees in politics and journalism from Columbia University in New York.
Don's recent stories on the World Vision Report are listed here.
Ben Gilbert is a freelance radio, newspaper and magazine reporter based in Beirut, covering Middle East news, culture, conflict and economics.
His reports from Iraq, Syria, Lebanon and the United Arab Emirates have aired on National Public Radio's All Things Considered, Morning Edition, Public Radio International's The World, American Public Media's Marketplace and Weekend America, the Canadian Broadcasting Corporation, BBC and ABC Radio.
His magazine and newspaper articles have appeared in US News and World Report, The Christian Science Monitor, The Daily Telegraph and The San Francisco Chronicle.
He is currently the Lebanon correspondent for globalpost.com.
Hailing from New Zealand, James Addison works as senior editor for World Vision Magazine, a publication of World Vision in the U.S.
He is currently on scene in Port-au-Prince, Haiti, covering the effects of the massive January 12 earthquake for World Vision, and relief efforts.